Mount Teide volcano summit Tenerife
— the island, seen from above its own clouds.
Not only on a wall.
Mount Teide volcano summit Tenerife, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Pico del Teide rises to 3,715 m at the centre of Tenerife, the highest point in Spain and the third-tallest volcanic structure on Earth measured from its ocean floor. The summit cone sits above a wide caldera of yellow and red rock. A trade-wind cloud layer often holds at about 1,500 m on the northern slope, so summit hikers look out over a sea of cloud with the other Canary Islands rising through it.
The place, in three passes.
Pico del Teide is a stratovolcano at the centre of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, with a summit elevation of 3,715 m, the highest point in Spain and in the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano sits within the larger Las Cañadas caldera at about 2,000 m and is the central feature of Teide National Park, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007. A cable car (Teleférico del Teide) climbs from 2,356 m to the upper station at 3,555 m; the final 160 m to the summit requires a free permit issued by the park.
Above 3,000 m the air is noticeably thinner and substantially clearer than at sea level. The Izaña Atmospheric Observatory at 2,400 m on the volcano's flank is one of the cleanest air-monitoring stations in Europe, run by AEMET since 1916. On the summit the trade-wind inversion typically caps cloud at about 1,500 m, so the upper cone stands in dry, clear air while the lower slopes are buried in mar de nubes. Sunset light reaches the summit minutes after it has left the valleys below.
The summit permit window opens before sunrise, and many hikers time the climb so the last 160 m above the cable car arrive at first light. At dawn the volcano casts a triangular shadow westward across the cloud layer and the islands of La Gomera and La Palma. The summit is fumarolic: sulphur vents along the crater rim release steam at temperatures around 86 °C. The warm air rising through the cold morning gives the cone a faint halo for a few minutes after sunrise.
